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I want to create a html email and I've read a lot about how to do it. There is one piece of information I can't find. How should I declare the mime type? I tried with:
meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
but it doesn't work.
Later edit:
I am trying to set the content-type of the mail to text/html but I don't know how. All this when writing from a regular email client. I have to declare it in the mail body? Or in the mail header (if so, how do I o it?)?
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Look for a <meta> element in the page source that gives the MIME type, for example <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> . According to the standards, the <meta> element that specifies the MIME type should be ignored if there's a Content-Type header available.
A media type (also known as a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions or MIME type) indicates the nature and format of a document, file, or assortment of bytes. MIME types are defined and standardized in IETF's RFC 6838.
In the Connections pane, go to the site, application, or directory for which you want to add a MIME type. In the Home pane, double-click MIME Types. In the MIME Types pane, click Add... in the Actions pane. In the Add MIME Type dialog box, add the file name extension and MIME type, and then click OK.
content_type is an alias for mimetype. Historically, this parameter was only called mimetype, but since this is actually the value included in the HTTP Content-Type header, it can also include the character set encoding, which makes it more than just a MIME type specification.
Are you trying to set the content-type declaration within the message header sent to the mail server? If so, you should set it this way, in a line itself:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
The end tag for meta tag is used only in xhtml/xml. If you are using html, you should use it inside <head> tags like:
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
Basically email clients ignore any META tags with Content type in them (at least as of 2013-10-17).
You need to set a the content type declaration in a special header in the email server.
More information about this issue can be found at http://www.emailonacid.com/blog/details/C13/the_importance_of_content-type_character_encoding_in_html_emails
If this makes no sense to you, then I'm afraid you're out of luck. The only reliable solution I've found is to convert any special characters to their HTML entity equivalent. The link above has a link to a tool that does this for you.
Hope that helps!
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This applies to php:
// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers[] = 'MIME-Version: 1.0';
$headers[] = 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1';
// Additional headers
$headers[] = 'To: Mary <[email protected]>, Kelly <[email protected]>';
$headers[] = 'From: Birthday Reminder <[email protected]>';
$headers[] = 'Cc: [email protected]';
$headers[] = 'Bcc: [email protected]';
// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, implode("\r\n", $headers));
http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php#example-4180
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